Adam v. Folger’s Empirical Analysis
120 F. 260 · 1903
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 1981 · most notably United States Ozone Co. v. United States Ozone Co. of America (1932), Denison Mattress Factory v. Spring-Air Co. (1962)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McClain v. Ortmayer · Singer Manuf'G Co v. June Manuf'G Co · Winans v. Adam Edward and Talbot Denmead · United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. · William Oliver and Micajah Williams v. Robert Piatt
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is well settled that there is no infringement if any one of the material parts of the combination is omitted, and that a patentee will not be beard to deny the materiality of any element included in bis combination claim. If a patentee claims eight elements to produce a certain result, when seven will do it. anybody may use the seven without infringing 1 lie claim, and the patentee has practically lost liis invention by declaring the materiality of an element that was in fact, immaterial. But form, location, and sequence of elements are all immaterial, unless form or location or sequence is essential to the result, or indispensable, by reason of the state of the art, to the novelty of the claims.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled that there is no infringement if any one of the material-parts of the combination is omitted, and that a patentee will not be heard to-deny the materiality of any element included in his combination claim. * * * But form, location, and sequence of elements are all immaterial, unless form or location or sequence is essential to the result, or indispensable, by reason, of the state of the art, to the novelty of the claim.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.